Refugees besieged: The lurking threat of COVID-19 in Syrian war refugee camps

Affiliations

¹ Center for Food Safety, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Georgia, 1109 Experiment Street, Griffin, GA, 30223-1797, USA; Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon. Electronic address: ik12@aub.edu.lb.

Issmat I Kassem. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2020 Nov-Dec.

. 2020 Nov-Dec:38:101736.

doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2020.101736. Epub 2020 May 5.

¹ Center for Food Safety, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Georgia, 1109 Experiment Street, Griffin, GA, 30223-1797, USA; Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon. Electronic address: ik12@aub.edu.lb.

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Keywords: COVID-19; Food; Hygiene; Infections; Refugees; Secondary infections; Syrian Camps; Water.

Conflict of interest statement

The author declares no conflict of interest.

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